hp unified application solutions for oracle

Technical white paper

HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle – Reference Architectures A Pathway to the Cloud for your Oracle environment

Table of contents Executive summary ....................................................................................................................................... 2

Solution overview and components ............................................................................................................. 3

Application architecture ................................................................................................................................ 4

Hardware configurations............................................................................................................................... 5

Entry ........................................................................................................................................................... 6

Medium ....................................................................................................................................................... 7

Large .......................................................................................................................................................... 9

Technologies that address business problems ......................................................................................... 10

HP BladeSystem ...................................................................................................................................... 10

HP ProLiant servers ................................................................................................................................. 11

Virtual Connect......................................................................................................................................... 11

Matrix Operating Environment using logical server profiles ................................................................. 12

Business continuity .................................................................................................................................. 15

Services .................................................................................................................................................... 15

Factory express ....................................................................................................................................... 15

Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................... 16

For more information .................................................................................................................................. 17

Technical white paper | HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle – Reference Architectures

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Executive summary

Organizations around the globe are in search of solutions to address increasingly complex business challenges. They struggle with application sprawl, high management costs, and silo environments that either make inefficient use of resources, or are unable to keep up with fluctuations and growth in the organization’s business. An HP customer survey reveals that 65% of IT budget allocation is spent on operations cost, 25% on migrations and upgrades, and only 10% on IT strategy and innovation.

Enterprises clearly need to reduce the total amount of resources focused on operations and maintenance allowing them to redirect those resources towards more strategic, innovative tasks. With this in mind HP’s Unified Application Solution for Oracle offers significant improvements to help you reduce the time spent in operations and maintenance by cutting your application deployment time from weeks, to just a few hours. Reduce the cost of operations and maintenance with features such as 80% reduced cabling, reduce operational cost by saving as much as 200 staff hours per application allowing IT staff to concentrate on innovation and enhanced productivity and flexibility with HP’s latest generation servers and management tools.

But these aren’t the only challenges CIOs face. We have had a lot of dialogue with customers around their data center challenges. Based on those discussions, we believe you can group the challenges into three areas:

• The need to rapidly respond to business and customer needs – meeting capacity/SLA requirements, better use of resources and accelerating time to application value

• The need to reduce the cost of operations and maintenance – reducing IT sprawl , doing more with less, faster return on investment and escalating power and cooling costs

• The need to enhance the quality of services to enable business success – ensure business continuity and protect critical resource and data assets

To quickly respond to these trends, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle offers a purpose-built, engineered solution that is modular, flexible, and extensible with additional benefits such as 40-60% savings in power and cooling, 50% to 70% performance improvement by adding resources when they are needed and 55% savings in hardware costs over traditional or proprietary solutions.

This engineered solution provides the right level of service for consolidating your Oracle Application instances using one unified, extensible platform that is cost-efficient and easy to deploy. In addition, this solution provides the ability to move resources on the fly to meet your changing business needs by creating logical profiles that can move freely across physical and virtual machines.

Built on the industry-leading, HP Converged Infrastructure, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle enables you to use and manage all Oracle applications in a physical or virtual data center today, and seamlessly move to a converged cloud environment when the time is right. No matter which delivery model you choose, HP services will be at your side with the service and support you need to ensure a successful deployment.

The Converged Infrastructure consolidates and flattens the networking layer by using 95% less cards, switches, cables and SFP+s over traditional rack based silo solutions. HP has the industry’s most complete, open, extendable portfolio with best in class technology and integrated solutions. HP is #1 or #2 in all markets offering more choices of operating systems and virtualization than the competition. Other vendors provide either closed proprietary or limited heterogeneous solutions with limited integration.

Implementing the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle provides a single unified management of the environment that is greatly simplified, and costs mitigated. Furthermore, by leveraging thousands of hours of testing and development and best practices from HP in working with Oracle applications, customers can quickly procure and deploy an application-ready infrastructure solution and take advantage of HP’s 100 plus Cloud Maps to quickly fast track the world’s first Converged Cloud Solution for Oracle and other vendor’s applications, often in less than an hour, thus saving weeks of time in creating needed services. Not only will you greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to design and deploy your Oracle application solution, the real value will be realized in consolidating a myriad of applications with one high-performance, virtualized environment engineered expressly for your Oracle applications. With HP Cloud Maps for Oracle you get pre-packaged application templates integrating decades of HP and ISV expertise that are used to customize catalogs of application services ready for the business to deploy as the next step in the evolution of converged cloud.

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HP Converged Cloud, is the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture. Based on IDC research1, HP internal testing and what customers are achieving the following benefits are achievable by implementing a converged cloud platform.2

• Time to deploy an Oracle service – 10 weeks to a few hours

• Dramatically reduced lower operational cost – reduction in 200 staff hours per application

• Enhanced productivity and flexibility

• IT spending now available to be directed to innovation

• 40-60% savings in power and cooling

• Reduced cabling by more than 80%

• 50% to 70% performance improvement by adding resources where they are needed

• Technology refresh of older infrastructure will boost performance/efficiency 3-10x

• 55% savings in hardware costs over traditional or proprietary solutions

• Increase and control utilization of resources effectively and efficiently

Whether you are looking to move your Oracle applications and databases towards a converged cloud platform today or want to start with a converged infrastructure that can be adapted to cloud services whenever you are ready to embrace it, HP provides engineered reference architectures to help organizations rapidly procure and deploy complete infrastructure solutions for Oracle application environments.

This HP Solutions Engineering for Oracle white paper on unifying Oracle applications, provides detailed reference architectures for entry level, medium, and large system deployments that can be acquired either as an infrastructure solution or as part of an HP CloudSystem Matrix (the ideal platform for deploying a Converged Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service). These reference architectural deployments make use of the industry leading HP ProLiant server blades, HP Virtual Connect networking along with customer choice of virtualization and HP management software – to build a physical and/or virtualized Oracle landscape.

The document will highlight the key benefits of a converged infrastructure solution for Oracle applications including server, storage, network and management tools. This is not a step-by-step instruction guide to building reference architectures (that information exists in the CloudSystem Solutions and Cloud Map deployment templates). This document will also not give installation guidance, or show how to install the software discussed.

Target audience: IT and business decision makers building an infrastructure for Oracle applications.

Solution overview and components

HP understands that customers will evolve to cloud at different speeds. Customers who are just starting to virtualize various Oracle application workloads are probably not ready for private clouds. They need to first focus on standardization, consolidation, and virtualization. Gains in these areas lay the groundwork for cloud-based approaches.

HP has introduced Unified Database and Application Solutions for Oracle, a set of reference architectures based on converged systems that help deliver the fastest path to agile, efficient virtualized database solutions. The key benefits include:

• Performance bottlenecks are eliminated via a balanced architecture that has been optimized for virtualized environments with the ability to add to, remove from or balance database workloads to efficiently use resources.

• Management, deployment, and security have been simplified across physical and virtual environments.

• Unified Solutions for Oracle provide choice of deploying as a cloud-based solution with HP CloudSystem Matrix, or purchased as an infrastructure solution today and integrated to the cloud when you are ready.

HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle (infrastructure platform – Converged Cloud ready) includes the following components:

• HP infrastructure

– Optimized rack and server blade configurations

– Converged scale-out storage optimized for virtualization

– High-performance LAN and SAN connections

1 Source: IDC Research Sponsored by HP, Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud, December 2011 2 Note: your mileage may vary based on your current environment

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• Deep management

– Intelligent rack and power infrastructure management

– Integrated system and storage management

• HP Services

– Factory integration

– Installation and support

– Optional consulting services

– Holistic delivery

The HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle detailed below is based on HP best practices developed over more than two decades of collaborative engineering. Some applicable white papers and Reference Architecture documentation that will help to fast-track your Oracle database deployment can be found via:

• HP Reference Architectures for Oracle

• HP Enterprise Applications Services for Oracle

• HP Private Cloud Solutions for Oracle

Additional Reference Architecture for Oracle information is available at hporacle.com, hp.com/go/oracle and from hp.com/go/cloudmaps.

Application architecture

Oracle application implementations typically include several different types of landscapes (see Figure 1) – including multiple application solutions for Production and Non-Production environments.

Figure 1. Application deployment strategies

Production Oracle application environments include one or more database servers. This is addressed in the HP Unified Database Solution for Oracle white paper. These database reference architectures are complementary to the application reference architectures. In an Oracle database implementation you would use a Unified Database Solution for Oracle reference architecture for deploying the databases with the database reference architecture provided in this document. The application tier requirements in this architecture can be deployed as a single instance or a cluster of nodes depending on business continuity requirements, scalability of the application environment or performance of the business. Any of the configurations can also be physical servers or deployed as virtual servers (VM) and managed from a central management console.

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In addition to the primary Production environment, each implementation typically consists of several Non-Production environments as well, and can vary by implementation – depending on customer requirements. Oracle applications need at least 4 types of non-production servers – Development, Test, Q&A, and Training. These are usually deployed as virtual machines as they are sporadically used and have a small number of users. Also, developers will usually bring up a sandbox environment to test some new patch or functionality, and utilizing virtual machines makes it easy to clone a test environment, and then retire it once the test is complete and promoted into development.

Table 1 illustrates how each of the reference architectures could be deployed in a typical Oracle application physical/virtual environment. This is just an example illustration with each reference architecture using half of the servers for physical deployments and the other half of the servers for virtual deployments. One of the benefits of this environment is the flexibility to implement based on your business requirements.

Table 1. Unified Application Solution for Oracle example deployment options

Reference Architectures Entry Medium Large

Total Compute nodes 8x BL460c (half-height 2p/12 cores per blade)

1x blade enclosure

16 x BL460c (half -height 2p/12 cores per blade)

1 x blade enclosure

32 x BL460c (half -height, 2p/12 cores per blade)

2x blade enclosures

Total processors / total cores 16p/96c 32p/192c 64p/384c

Total Mem / Mem per server 768 GB/ 96 GB 1536 GB/ 96 GB 3072 GB / 96 GB

Total Storage (usable) * 4 TB 8 TB 16 TB

Total number of VMs** 32 64 128

Memory per VM 24 GB 24 GB 24 GB

VMs per physical node 4 8 16

* 50% concurrency, 70/30 R/W ratio; ** Conservative ratio of 2 cores / VM

Application environments for mission-critical applications vary somewhat depending on business needs. HP identifies several reference architectures for Oracle application environments that best meet the performance, availability and consolidation needs of organizations, matching the business requirements with best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO). Several solutions can be found at hp.com/go/oracle. Organizations should work with the HP Competency Center for Oracle to choose the best solution and options for their individual needs.

To greatly enhance application growth and elasticity, HP best practices suggest a boot-from-SAN strategy, configuring idle boot images in the event of capacity or failover considerations. These boot images can be enabled either in virtual machines, or on bare metal, depending on your corporate strategy. For bare metal deployments, business managers will benefit greatly by the fast allocation of services to compute nodes with HP Virtual Connect Manager. By abstracting specific addresses of nodes in the environment, HP Virtual Connect (VC) makes all compute nodes instantaneously available to Oracle services. This also greatly reduces the time required to provision services for new application deployments or migrations.

Hardware configurations

The recommended configurations provide all components necessary to create an Oracle environment, including servers for both production and non-production environments, network, storage, and management tools. The solutions provide for dynamic flexing of resources to accommodate cyclical workload peaks, business continuity, virtualization and planned or unplanned downtime. If the business challenges stated in this document sound all too familiar, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle is the right solution for you.

Each configuration can support multiple application stacks – each requiring app, web, reporting, and other complementary servers based on the different Oracle applications being deployed. It is recommended to engage the HP regional sizing teams to determine the sizing requirements of each application database before deploying on one of the reference architectures.



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Entry

The entry configuration (Figure 2) supports a single database stack or multiple application depending on the business requirements. This solution can be expanded into a medium configuration later as business grows or as more applications require deploying. This can be cost effectively achieved by using the principles and practical implementation recommendations of the HP Converged Infrastructure model. The entry level solution implements 8 HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blades with 12 cores each running the operating system version of your choice and uses an HP P2000 based storage system with 4 TB usable disk space.

Figure 2. Entry Mid-sized business configuration

Table 2. Entry Mid-sized Business Configuration

Qty Item Description

1 Rack HP Universal Rack 10642 G2 Shock Rack

1 Blade Enclosure BLc7000 Blade Enclosure

(2) VC Flex-10 Ethernet interconnect module

(4) 10GigE uplinks with SFP+

(2) VC 8Gb/s 24-port FC interconnect module

Redundant power, cooling, and Onboard Administrator (OA)

Virtual Connect Manager (included)

8 ProLiant Servers HP BL460c Gen8 Blade

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(2) Processors (6 cores each), 96 GB RAM

(1) DP 10 GigE (included LOM)

(1) Emulex Dual Channel 8Gb, PCI-E-to-FC HBA Mez card

2 SAN Switch HP 8/24 (24) Full Fabric Ports Enabled SAN Switch each with

(6) HP 8Gb Short Wave B-Series SFP+

(2) 2m Multi-mode OM3 LC/LC FC Cables

1 P2000 Storage HP P2000 with 4 TB disk space

2 Optional: Ethernet Switch HP 5820 24-Port 1/10 GigE port switches

1 Software Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x or higher

1 Optional: Software VMware vSphere Enterprise Software

HP Matrix Operating Environment

HP Dynamic Capacity Management

HP Data Protector

Medium

A medium configuration (Figure 3) extends the entry configuration. This architecture can support several application stacks – each with several thousand users. This build employs 16 HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blades running a combination of physical and optional virtual software of your choice with the HP P2000 based storage system with 8 TB usable disk space.

Figure 3. Enterprise business medium


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Table 3. Medium Enterprise Configuration







Redundant power, cooling, and OA















HP Data Protector


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Large

A larger configuration is shown in Figure 4. This architecture can usually support 3 or more application stacks – each with thousand of users. This build employs 32 HP BladeSystem x64 Blades running VMware vSphere and the HP P4500 based storage system with 16 TB of raw disk space.

Figure 4. Enterprise business – large

Table 4. Large Enterprise Configuration







Redundant power, cooling, and OA








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Technologies that address business problems

The value proposition offered by HP encompasses unique HP innovation, engineered architectures built around Oracle solutions, services in the cloud and application space, a vast partner ecosystem, and end-to-end solution offerings. HP offers the products, solutions, services, support and the ecosystem to make customers planning a roadmap to the cloud thrive. Scores of customers across web, search, services, and social media have implemented production clouds based on HP Converged Infrastructure. The following technologies are just a few of the many ways HP can help you address your business problems and drive innovation in the business.

HP BladeSystem

Drive business innovation and eliminate server sprawl with HP BladeSystem, the industry’s only Converged Infrastructure architected for any workload from client to cloud. HP BladeSystem is engineered to maximize every hour, watt, and dollar, saving up to 56% total cost of ownership over traditional infrastructures.

With HP BladeSystem, it is possible to create a change ready, power efficient, network optimized, simple to manage and high performance infrastructure on which to consolidate, build and scale your Oracle database implementation. Each c7000 enclosure can accommodate up to 16 half-height blades or up to 8 full-height blades or a mixture of both. In addition, there are 8 Interconnect Bays with support for any I/O fabric your applications requires. An HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure populated with HP ProLiant BL460c blades is shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. The HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure (pictured with HP ProLiant BL460c server blades)

Benefits for Oracle Applications

HP BladeSystem allows for the use of high scaling, distributed 2 or 4-socket servers in Oracle database implementations while maintaining a minimal amount of infrastructure to be managed. The result is a highly available, power efficient, simple to manage infrastructure that sacrifices nothing while delivering optimized costs, virtualization options, converged storage and networking, and simple scalability.


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HP ProLiant servers

Choosing a server for Oracle applications involves selecting a server that is the right mix of performance, price and power efficiency with the most optimal management. HP’s experience during test and in production has been that 2 or 4 socket servers are the ideal platform for Oracle applications depending on the workload requirements. With the potential of multiple VMs running on one platform, 2 and 4 socket systems offer better memory performance and memory scaling for databases that need large System Global Area (SGA). HP BladeSystem reduces costs and simplifies management through shared infrastructure.

HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8

The HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blade offers the ideal balance of performance, scalability and expandability for most any workload, making it the standard for dense data center computing. Each HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 offers Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 series processors accommodating 1 or 2 processors with a range of 2 – 16 cores, two I/O expansion mezzanine slots with Flex adapters supporting Flex-103 with Ethernet, iSCSI and even FCoE traffic, up to 512GB of DDR3 memory, two hot plug drive bays with an embedded HP Smart Array controller as well as industry leading HP Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) management capabilities.

Figure 6. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blade


The BL460c is an ideal platform for most Oracle application workloads. The BL460c offers not only high user counts per host, but also incredible density which is far more important in optimizing power and management efficiency as well as reducing infrastructure. It also makes no compromises with memory speed and capacity which plays an important role when achieving maximum Oracle application performance.

Virtual Connect

HP Virtual Connect (VC) provides the world’s first wire-once interconnect solution for virtualized and cloud-ready environments. Virtual Connect is an industry-standards-based I/O solution that allows you to virtualize your LAN or SAN connections at the server edge for simplicity, flexibility and mobility. It puts an abstraction layer between servers and the external networks so that the LAN and SAN see a fixed pool of servers rather than individual servers.

The Virtual Connect Manager allows you to create I/O profiles, defining unique MAC addresses and WWNs. A VC profile is assigned to a specific bay in the blade enclosure, effectively hiding the LAN and FC hardware on the installed server blade. This approach allows you to upgrade or replace a blade without the need to change any of the external resources used by that server.

Virtual Connect Ethernet and FC modules simplify the connection of server NICs and HBAs to the data center environment and extend the capabilities of these standard server devices by supporting the secure administration of their Ethernet MAC addresses and FC WWNs. No virtual devices are created; the MAC addresses and WWNs are real and are the only identifiers seen by the system, the OS, and the networks. Secure management is achieved by accessing the physical NICs and HBAs via the enclosure’s Onboard Administrator (OA) and the iLO interfaces on the individual server blades. Each Virtual Connect Flex-10 Module has 16 x 10 Gb downlinks, 2 x 10 Gb cross connects, 1 x 10 Gb copper uplink, and 8 x 10 Gb SR, LR, or LRM fiber uplinks SFP+ with a maximum of 8 modules per blade enclosure. Each Virtual Connect 8Gb Fibre Channel Module has 16 internal 8 Gb downlinks and 8 external 8 Gb uplinks with a maximum of 6 modules per blade enclosure. A single c7000 blade enclosure can accommodate a maximum of 8 total modules of various combinations.

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Figure 7. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 (10 Gb Ethernet Module)

Figure 8. HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb (24-Port Fibre Channel Module)


• Oracle Applications and Database landscapes commonly need dense stacks of servers with hundreds of Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) connections to make the infrastructure work. HP Virtual Connect (VC) eliminates point-to-point connections and configuration complexity.

• Configure/Wire-once, then add, move, and change network connections without affecting LAN or SAN in minutes instead of days; managing connections for many servers from one pane of glass.

• Requires up to 95 percent fewer network cards4, switches and cables to buy, install, qualify, and maintain. Additionally, achieve significant reduction in power and cooling costs as well as in equipment cost with VC Converged Networking.

• Network sprawl at the server edge, explosive growth of virtual machines, and rising networking infrastructure costs, slow down your ability to respond to change. HP VC simplifies the server edge by addressing this sprawl.

• If a particular Oracle RAC cluster interconnect requires more bandwidth as the workload grows or during specific peak loads during a heavy usage time of the year you can adjust the bandwidth as needed. You are no longer locked into either 1 Gb or 10 Gb allocations for a database workload. HP VC Flex-10 allows you to adjust bandwidth to your changing workload – whenever you need to.

• 65% lower interconnect and adapter costs for Oracle RAC implementations

Matrix Operating Environment using logical server profiles

HP Matrix Operating Environment (OE) can give your organization a competitive edge by providing the information you need to proactively deal with potential issues (such as performance, power, and space constraints) before they develop into problems that can impact your business. You no longer have to wait for an application server to be overloaded or to experience an outage that necessitates a recovery. Even if a failure should occur, the logical server capability of HP Matrix OE, and the fast provisioning it enables, makes recovery fast and easy to execute. HP Matrix OE can be used to prevent problems by balancing resources across your data center, enabling higher levels of availability and quality-of-service.

Matrix OE enables management of both physical blade servers and virtual machines as logical servers so they can be moved and migrated easily within a CloudSystem environment, including the following key functionality:

• Logical servers

• Real-time capacity planning

• Unified control of physical and virtual infrastructures

Logical server

Logical servers can be used to bring the freedom and flexibility of virtualization to your physical servers. In essence, a logical server consists of a server profile that is easy to create and move freely across physical and virtual machines (VMs). The detachment of logical identities from physical resources allows you to create logical servers on – or move them to – any suitable physical or virtual machine, as needed.

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Figure 9. A logical server profile that is easily created and freely moved across physical or virtual machines

A logical server’s profile can include entitlements such as power allocation, processor and memory requirements, network connections, and storage – everything the operating system and application stack requires to operate. The key components to creating a logical server profile are boot from SAN, Virtual Connect, and Flex-10 which is a hardware-based solution that lets you split a 10 Gb/s server network connection into four variable partitions. Flex-10 technology lets you replace multiple lower bandwidth physical NIC ports with a single Flex-10 port. This reduces management requirements, the number of NICs and interconnects modules needed, and power and operational costs.

Alternatively, you can create and store logical server templates with configurations specifically designed for your most frequently used applications. These templates can be reactivated in minutes, as needed.

Figure 10. Dynamic flexing an Oracle RAC cluster – ‘bare metal’ provision additional RAC node 3

Real-time capacity planning with HP Capacity Advisor

HP Capacity Advisor is the industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool, allowing you to continuously monitor server capacity and power use. It collects and analyzes millions of historical data points from virtual and physical resources, then, using HP Smart Solver technology, shows you how best to distribute your application workloads, helping to reduce the number of physical servers you need.


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Capacity Advisor employs a five-star rating system to show you, in real time, which physical server database is the best fit for a particular logical server database; after selecting a suitable target, you can drag-and-drop the logical server to the desired location.

This approach takes the tedious research and guesswork out of traditional capacity planning. Moreover, the energy-usage awareness built into Capacity Advisor, which is based on more than a thousand data points collected per server per day, allows you to make decisions on-the-fly so that your data center can become more energy-efficient than ever before.

Unified control

HP Matrix OE allows you to control all physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way. It extends the capabilities of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) – the infrastructure management platform for unified control – allowing you to view all available database resources on a single screen; you can drill down as far as you need without logging into another tool. In addition, HP Matrix OE is designed to manage virtualized servers if you want to move physical database servers to virtual machines or virtual database servers to physical servers.

The provisioning of servers and storage using system management capabilities allows you to control your Oracle database environment, as needed, by making dynamic changes. Based on your business needs, you can set thresholds for these resources and dynamically make changes to provide the desired level of service.

The provisioning model supports use cases such as the following:

Reduce the Oracle application downtime due to planned maintenance or failure An Oracle application workload can be moved from one server to another to increase availability during planned maintenance or in response to a failure.

Examples of this use case include:

• A firmware upgrade is required in order to take advantage of a new capability.

• An increase in recoverable memory errors makes it advisable to proactively replace memory to avoid failure.

A variation on this use case involves adding capacity by moving an existing Oracle application workload from one server to another with more available resources. For example, newly created Oracle application transactions might require additional resources, such as additional processor cores, I/O and/or memory.

Increase the resource utilization rates of an Oracle application You can add server capacity by activating an additional Oracle application server to accommodate an increased workload. Examples of this use case include:

• The number of users and/or batch jobs has increased, requiring additional resources to handle the growing demand.

• Projections from Capacity Advisor of future needs indicate that current capacity will not be able to adequately support the forecast demand.

• Additional resources are required on short notice for purposes such as new projects or training.

Reduce excess resources assigned to Oracle application database workloads by deactivation or consolidation You can reduce the resources assigned to an Oracle application workload through deactivation or consolidation when these resources are no longer needed. Examples of this use case include:

• Resource requirements for an application workload vary significantly depending on the time of day, week, month, or year.

• An obsolete legacy application workload is no longer required but may possibly be reactivated later on short notice.

• A special project, such as testing or training, has finished.

• The number of users and/or automated jobs has decreased, reducing resource requirements.

• Original resource requirements were over-estimated.

Benefits for Oracle Applications • Design and provision services in minutes via a self-service portal

• Proactively collect data about each environment to review utilization and growth so you can proactively balance resources and determine capacity requirements

• Take advantage of defined logical server profiles to add resources on the fly or move unused resources to other projects.


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Business continuity

To ensure consistent performance and rock-solid stability, your data center must also be able to adapt effortlessly in a dynamic business environment – a daunting prospect to be sure. But rest assured HP Unified Solutions for Oracle can help. To achieve this goal, you need a shared resource infrastructure, with integrated virtualization and automation capabilities, built on a seamless tiered storage foundation with availability built in at every level. Then you need to know that the full stack of technologies has been tested and proven as an integrated system. That’s exactly what the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle delivers.

The HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle reference architecture features a fully self-contained infrastructure comprised of server blades, storage, and networking resources, all of which can be shared dynamically to ensure continuous availability. Network and storage cabling is aggregated and shared within the backplane of the BladeSystem enclosure, dramatically simplifying administration and lowering cost. To support this kind of highly integrated application database environment you must have an infrastructure capable of modular growth and dynamic resource allocation – the same characteristics a data center must achieve to ensure business continuity.

HP also provides Enhanced Mission Critical services available for consolidation, business continuity, modernization and shared services Private Cloud projects. This includes the services to design, deploy and maintain your toughest mission critical environments for maximum resiliency.


Servers, network and storage integrated by design with business continuity in mind allows for easy add, remove or replace components without any downtime.

Services

Oracle applications, middleware, and databases are essential for the success of your business. With HP’s performance tuning and benchmarking efforts, and more than 100,000 customer engagements, HP has built significant expertise around today’s Oracle solutions. HP offers the benefit of that experience to our customers, helping you maximize the performance and functionality of your Oracle deployments. With HP services, you will be ready to support today's business challenges and adapt quickly to changes you will face in the future.

HP focuses on common needs we identified in Oracle implementations, addressing areas such as:

• Planning and design

• System performance

• Installation and configuration

• IT outsourcing

• Infrastructure consulting

• Service-oriented architecture

• Jumpstart/migration

Working with IT staff and system integrators, HP offers Oracle content expertise during key points of the implementation. Focused service offerings can help you improve the quality of your project while accelerating the project timeline.


• Take advantage of over 12,000 Oracle specialists worldwide to make your transformation successful.

• Be assured HP will stand behind you for your Oracle environment (1,000,000 plus Oracle users supported).

Factory express

HP Factory Express can extend your valuable resources and accelerate your business results. It provides predictable, trusted and tested IT solutions tailored to your business needs. With HP Factory Express, our factory is your factory, and our engineers are an extension of your IT staff. Together we plan, design and implement the best solution for your business, giving you access to expertise that can help you with quick and easy adoption of new technologies. HP Factory Express also delivers:


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Flexibility

• You decide how your solution is built, tested, integrated, shipped and deployed.

• You have a comprehensive set of offerings to choose from.

Value

• Saves time and money, while allowing your people to focus on your core business.

• Helps accelerate the transition to new technologies.

Confidence

• Solutions are completed by HP experts and rigorously tested before delivery.

• Systems, processes and people behind HP Factory Express deliver accurate, reliable results.

• Experience predictable, seamless and smoother implementations.


Include the right configuration for you enterprise based on the reference architectures.

Conclusion

Flexible, consolidated, and agile, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle is designed and optimized for Oracle. Using this truly versatile solution, you can consolidate all Oracle Application instances on one unified platform that is cost-efficient and easy to deploy. In addition, the solution expands and contracts on the fly to meet you’re changing needs. Built on the industry-leading HP Converged Infrastructure, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle enables you to use and manage all Oracle applications in a physical data center today, and seamlessly migrate to a private cloud when the time is right. No matter which delivery model you choose, HP Services will be at your side with the service and support you need to ensure a successful deployment.

The HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle is a modular, standards-based converged infrastructure that will integrate seamlessly with your existing data center. Based on the highly efficient HP BladeSystem technology, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle has been validated, integrated, and tested with Oracle application solutions, but you can also use it with other vendors’ database platforms. With the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle, you receive outstanding value in the form of:

• Pre-engineered, tested offering

• Complete solution for Oracle application tier

• Innovative and clear roadmap for investment protection

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